I have titled this blog "Truly Scrumptious" after the lovely Truly character in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, one of my favorite childhood films. I still find myself giddy and nostalgic watching it, although I'm uncertain as to how I wasn't more afraid of the child-snatcher and other creepy characters. For those of you who don't know it, the film was made in 1968 from a screenplay written by Roald Dahl, adapted from a novel by James Bond author Ian Fleming, and it stars Dick Van Dyke as the looney father and inventor Mr. Caractacus Potts and Sally Anne Howes as his fair love interest, Truly Scrumptious, daughter of the great Lord Scrumptious of the town's "sweets" factory. Like most of my childhood escapades, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was full of imagination, adventure, creativity, ridiculousness, thrills, song and dance, drama, love, and of course... sweets! And for those of you who have seen me grow up, you know I may as well have subsisted on candy and imagination for many of my better childhood years!
So I begin this blog now as a kind of ode to the childhood wonder this film still excites as I share with you the things I find most truly and delightfully "scrumptious," in all that the word implies, whether long summer days in Atlanta or new fabulous market treats from the Boquería in Barcelona (which is in fact the background setting for this blog). I hope you enjoy the adventure!
This is Chitty as she first sets off to fly with the Mr. Potts, Truly, Jemimah, and Jeremy
Mr. Potts and Truly
